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'' 'Nastagio degli Onesti' '' is the protagonist in one of the one hundred short stories contained in Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. The eighth story of the fifth day, tells of the unrequited love of the nobleman Ravenna Nastagio for a girl who will eventually be induced to accept Nastagio's affection by the appearance of a rejected lover and her beloved. == Plot == Nastagio degli Onesti is a noble Ravenna, made rich after the death of his father and uncle. He falls in love with a girl of a noble family, the daughter of Paul Traversari. To get her attention, Nastagio begins to squander his money on banquets and parties organized only for her (a reference to the economy that links this story to that of Frederick of Alberighi); The girl, however, does not return the love of Nastagio, indeed she takes pleasure in refusing it. Nastagio tries to forget the noble girl, failing this he starts to hate her, this drives him to attempt suicide several times with no success. Seeing Nastagio's despair, his friends and relatives advised him to go to Ravenna, in order to forget his unfulfilled love. The young man, unable to continue ignoring this advice moved to Class, not far from his hometown. One Friday in early May, Nastagio walked through a pine forest at dusk, there he saw a girl running naked in tears, being chased by two dogs trying to bite her and a Knight with a black sword intending to kill her. Nastagio tried to defend her, but the knight, presented himself as Guido of Anastagi and tells of how he had once loved this woman, but because she did not love him, he had himself committed suicide. When the girl died, without any regrets for the misery she had inflicted on her admirer, she was sentenced to the cruel punishment of being hunted. Every Friday, the girl would have to undergo the killing and subsequently the restoration of their bodies, for as many years as it had been months that she had rejected her wooer. Nastagio understands the events to be of divine will and resigns himself to being an onlooker. He witnesses the agony inflicted on the young girl by the rider, after which the two are forced to start the chase again and disappear from Nastagio's sight. The young man decides to take advantage of the situation and prepares a lavish banquet in the same place of the forest on the following Friday, inviting the relatives of his beloved together with his parents. As Nastagio predicted, at the end of the dinner the horrifying scene is repeated with the same harrowing and pitiful consequences. With this he gets the desired effect: after the hunter once again explains the reasons for the girl's fate to all of those present at the dinner, the girl loved by Nastagio, realizes she had stepped on the love felt by Nastagio and for fear of suffering the same fate of the victim before her, she changes her mind and immediately agrees to the marriage, transforming his hate into love. So the Sunday after they got married and since then all the women of Ravenna learn to be more kind to their love. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nastagio degli Onesti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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